Tintin Symposium UCL

Posted on by Thomas Giddens


Some of you interested in Graphic Justice may also be interested in this Tintin symposium at UCL. The link to their CFP is below, and they are interested in (but not limited to) the following possible themes: 

  • Tintin and Hergé
  • Tintin and comic book history
  • Tintin and detective fiction
  • Tintin and the adventure story
  • Tintin in translation
  • Censorship of Tintin
  • Tintin’s spinoffs
  • Tintin in adaptations
  • Tintin in films
  • Tintin fan culture
  • Tintin and geography
  • Tintin and travel
  • Tintin as cultural phenomenon
  • Travel and colonialism
  • Treatment of race in Tintin
  • Snowy as sidekick
  • Animal welfare
  • EcoTintin
  • Tintin and gender
  • Tintin and masculinity; homosocial relations
  • Tintin in criticism

http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/cfp-the-adventures-of-tintin-symposium-london-10-january-2014/

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Published by Thomas Giddens

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He researches critical, comics, and cultural legal studies. His most recent work is 'On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing' (Routledge 2018). He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance in 2013 and edited the collection 'Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law' (Routledge 2015). He also edits the on-going 'Graphic Justice' special collection at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship (www.comicsgrid.com) and is a founding Co-Director of St Mary's Centre for Law and Culture.